https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/18970 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:14:17 GMT 2026-08-11T01:14:17Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49166 Title: Os serviços intensivos em conhecimento no Brasil: estrutura e dinâmica inovativa Abstract: This dissertation aims to analyze Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS), presenting their structure and innovative dynamics in Brazil, and comparing them with the country's Manufacturing Industry. The analysis is structured in three chapters. The first chapter addresses the literature on innovation in services, highlighting the overcoming of the traditional view that attributed a passive character to the sector, emphasizing the importance of its innovative dynamics. Definitions, classifications, and the role of KIBS in innovation systems are presented, as well as an international overview, with data from organizations such as UNCTAD, World Bank and OECD, demonstrating the growing economic importance of knowledge-intensive services. The second chapter empirically characterizes KIBS in Brazil, using data from PAS and RAIS between 2007 and 2021. The results show that, although KIBS represent a still modest portion of the Brazilian productive structure compared to industry, they present a consistent growth trajectory in the number of companies, net operating revenue, and formal employment relationships. Furthermore, an internal analysis of KIBS reveals a clear heterogeneity between T-KIBS and P-KIBS in the labor market. The last chapter compares the innovative behavior of KIBS and the Manufacturing Industry, based on several editions of PINTEC for the period 2008-2017. The results indicate that, although industry invests larger absolute volumes in R&D, KIBS show a greater relative intensity of innovative effort and prioritize process innovations. Industry, in turn, maintains broader and more consolidated cooperation networks with its production chain (suppliers, customers) and focuses more on incremental innovations. In summary, the results indicate that KIBS are a dynamic and strategic segment in the Brazilian economy, with a distinct and complementary innovative profile to that of industry. The results reinforce the need for innovation support policies that recognize the specificities of knowledge-intensive services, promoting their integration with other sectors to strengthen the country's competitiveness and technological development. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49166 2026-03-20T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49141 Title: Políticas industriais e sustentabilidade: um estudo sobre a energia solar fotovoltaica nos Estados Unidos, China, Alemanha, Índia, Japão e Brasil Abstract: This study examines the extent to which industrial policies directed at the photovoltaic solar energy sector have promoted technological development and productive linkages in the United States, China, Germany, Japan, India, and Brazil within the context of the energy transition. Grounded in the theoretical contributions of Chang, Andreoni, Rodrik, Mazzucato, Mathews, and Altenburg, the study conceives solar energy as a strategic vector for the structural transformation of economies. The methodology combines documentary analysis of laws, plans, programs, and energy and industrial policy instruments with the analysis of indicators of installed capacity, generation, employment, and foreign trade, based on data from IRENA, the IEA, COMTRADE, and WIPO. The results indicate that countries that combined demand-side stimulus with direct support policies for production and innovation, such as the Chinese Five-Year Plans, the German Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, and fiscal and regulatory incentives, consolidated robust productive chains, higher export activity, and innovative capacity, as evidenced by patenting activity. By contrast, India and Brazil advanced in the diffusion of the technology through auctions and distributed generation, but remained heavily dependent on imports and exhibited low levels of technological internalization. The study suggests that the effectiveness of green industrial policies depends on the state’s capacity to coordinate energy and industrial policy instruments within a long-term strategy. In the Brazilian case, it concludes that transforming solar potential into an industrial and technological advantage requires stronger coordination among support for production, research and development, local content, and regulatory stability. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49141 2026-04-29T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48854 Title: Os limites da política econômica brasileira frente à crise de 2008 Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the limitations of Brazilian economic policy in the face of the 2008 international financial crisis, considering Brazil's structurally dependent insertion in the world economy. It starts from the hypothesis that, in peripheral economies, the effects of systemic crises of capitalism are amplified by historical mechanisms of productive, technological, financial, and political subordination, or that restrict the scope and effectiveness of macroeconomic policies. The central theoretical framework mobilized is Celso Furtado's interpretation of underdevelopment and dependency, according to which Latin American economies are characterized by a specific form of capital reproduction, conditioned by asymmetrical relations with hegemonic centers.Empirically, the 2008 crisis is examined as an expression of the contradictions of financed capitalism, highlighting the mechanisms of international transmission of shocks and their differentiated impacts on central and dependent economies. In particular, the Brazilian response to the crisis is analyzed, marked by the adoption of anticyclical fiscal and credit policies, the actions of public banks, and the use of international reserves, which allowed for a relatively rapid recovery in the short term. However, it is argued that this strategy encountered structural limits, evidenced by the restriction of the external sector, the re-primarization of exports, persistent financial dependence, and the fragility of the productive structure. It is concluded that the obstacles faced by Brazil in the post-crisis period were not merely conjunctural, but an expression of a subordinate international insertion that continues to restrict the autonomy of the State and the sustainability of a national development project. Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48854 2026-02-05T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48676 Title: Uma análise empírica-estrutural dos regimes de crescimento wage-led ou profit-led para o brasil entre 1947 e 2021, pela perspectiva pós-kaleckiana Abstract: This dissertation empirically analyzes, from a post-Kaleckian perspective, the growth regimes of the Brazilian economy between 1947 and 2021, seeking to classify them as wage-led or profit-led. Using a structural approach, the study separately estimates the impact of functional income distribution on consumption, investment, and the external sector. The results reveal heterogeneity: consumption responds positively to increases in the wage share (wage-led), while investment reacts negatively (profit-led). The effect on net exports is ambiguous but tends to be profit-led. The aggregate analysis indicates that the growth regime is sensitive to the econometric specification, potentially being classified as wage-led in the long run and profit-led in the short run. The work concludes that redistributive policies face a trade-off between stimulating consumption and discouraging investment. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48676 2026-02-23T00:00:00Z